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| October 07, 2006 | Saturday | Ramazan 13, 1427 |
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Donors likely to pledge $800m more
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: Major international donor agencies, led by the World Bank, have indicated to make available an additional $800 million or ‘even more’ as sought by President Pervez Musharraf, but...
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Quake areas to get Rs3bn for housing subsidy
ISLAMABAD Oct 6: The federal government on Friday decided to provide Rs3 billion for early payment of housing subsidy to the earthquake-affected people of 34 union councils of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir....
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New rules hinder rebuilding in quake-hit areas MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 6: Due to slow process of financial help to rebuild houses in earthquake-hit areas, only five per cent of the houses, out of 27 per cent being rebuilt, may be completed when the snow starts falling....
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Bush Senior says Pakistan needs more aid for reconstruction
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6: Former US President George H. W. Bush said on Friday that he would do his best for fulfilment of financial pledges made by countries towards rehabilitation and reconstruction of Pakistan’s Northern areas devastated by the 2005 earthquake....
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Deal will stem militancy: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is satisfied with the peace deal between the government and tribes of the North Waziristan Agency....
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Pipeline blast in Quetta disrupts gas supply
QUETTA, Oct 6: Gas supply to many areas of the city was disrupted on Friday after a pipeline was blown up near the Gahi Khan chowk in the Shalkot area....
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Musharraf sought patch-up: Benazir
BOSTON, Oct 6: Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto has said that Musharraf approached her for a possible patch-up before 2007 elections and there were some “back-channel” contacts with the government but that stubborn differences remained....
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Pakistan cricket at crossroads as Shaharyar quits
LAHORE, Oct 6: Another day, another resignation! On Thursday, it was the ever-reliable Younis Khan who, in a rare fit of anger, quit as captain to rock the Pakistan cricket boat....
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Shrine dispute: 18 die in Orakzai clash
KOHAT/PESHAWAR, Oct 6: At least 18 people, a woman and a child among them, were killed in mortar attacks during an armed clash between two communities early on Friday morning over the ownership of a shrine in Orakzai Agency....
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Detentions in capital for interrogation
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: Security agencies have detained a number of people for interrogation in a foiled bid to fire rockets in the vicinity of the parliament, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday....
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Call by Nato commanders ‘to get tough with Pakistan’
LONDON, Oct 6: Nato commanders from five countries who have troops stationed in Afghanistan are demanding their governments get tough with Pakistan over its support for the Taliban, The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday....
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Rise in gas tariff on cards
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The government has decided in principle to raise a price cap on gas it purchases from exploration and production companies on the basis of international oil market, a...
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Oil barge sinks near Karachi coast
KARACHI, Oct 6: A barge belonging to a private company, carrying oil from Port Qasim to Karachi Port Trust, sank in the open sea, off 3.1...
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12,737 ghost schools in country: census
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The first ever National Education Census (NEC) conducted by the federal education ministry has come up with shocking revelations like the existence of 12,737 ghost schools in the country....
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20 injured as protests continue in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Oct 6: Twenty people were hurt on Friday in fresh clashes in held Kashmir between police and demonstrators demanding clemency for a Muslim man sentenced to death for plotting a 2001 attack on parliament, police said....
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Nine suspects held in Punjab raids
GUJRAT/MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Oct 6: A Rangers’ officer died in a shootout near Mandi Bahauddin following a raid on an outhouse sheltering some ‘terrorism suspects.’...
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Man who set himself on fire dies at Pims
ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: A young man from Sindh, who had set himself on fire on the Supreme Court premises on October 2, died at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday night, hospital sources said....
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Britain may extradite suspect
LONDON, Oct 6: A US national accused of supporting Al Qaeda financially and with military equipment should be extradited to face trial in the United States, a British court ruled on Thursday.—AFP...
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